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"Pnin" is Nabokov's humorous and autobiographical classic. The first four chapters were published in The New Yorker magazine. It was Nabokov's first novel that attracted widespread attention and popularity among American readers. It describes the life of an exiled old Russian professor teaching in an American university. He has a kind-hearted but eccentric personality, and is out of tune with his surroundings. He is often ridiculed by his colleagues, and his wife also abandoned him. He was alone, so he had no choice but to indulge in old papers and study ancient Russian culture and classical literature to comfort himself; recalling the past all the time, he showed a strong sense of nostalgia. Nabokov skillfully blended Russian culture and modern American civilization, and humorously and intelligently portrayed a distressed man who had lost his homeland, cut off his connection with his motherland's culture, and lost his love.
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